...Bettina Dietz; Thomas Nutz Duke University Press 2005 Collections Curieuses: The Aesthetics of Curiosity and Elite Lifestyle in Eighteenth-Century Paris Bettina Dietz...

... in Edinburgh and Paris, and was Goldsmith's Reader in English at Oxford for much of his career. It was in his retirement, after spending much time in Australia and New Zealand, that his affiliation with the region grew. He was professor of English at the University in Adelaide in 1950–51, so it was fitting...

...Amanda Strasik In 1811, Pierre‐Paul Prud'hon painted an allegorical portrait of the infant Napoleon II for Empress Marie‐Louise, Napoleon's second wife and the child's mother, that was exhibited publicly at the Paris Salon the following year. Prud'hon's painting is distinctive because it lacks...

... to forego sugar came during the early years of the Revolution of 1789, in response to rising sugar prices. The women of Paris were asked to refrain from buying sugar at high prices that were assumed to be a result of market manipulation by speculators and hoarders engaging in anti-revolutionary behavior...

... and archival evidence about sexual relations between noblemen and workingmen in eighteenth-century Paris. Nobles who sought and had sex with men, more often in private than in public spaces, have not been studied as a group. As this case study demonstrates, their rank both sheltered then from arrest...

... later in Paris. Here, however, things did not turn out so well. City offi cials planned a grand fête for 9:00 p.m. on May 30th at the place Louis XV. Members of a famous family of fi reworks specialists, the Ruggieri brothers, designed a spectacle that again included a large temple dedicated...

... of Enlightenment thus created new fire risks, particularly in urban environments. [email protected] Copyright 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 fire pyrotechnic urban environments Freemasons Paris London Enlightenment, as both an intellectual movement and a set of social practices...

... 5 1 Astley had off ered Paris in an Uproar; or, the Destruction of the Bastille. Even earlier, the Royal Circus, managed by Charles Hughes, started the series of theatrical versions with John Dent’s The Triumph of Liberty; or, The Bastille on August 5th, barely three weeks after the fall...

..., as one minister after another tried and failed to resolve the monarchy’s fi nancial problems. After exiling the Par- lement of Paris in 1787 and exhausting its other options, the Crown con- voked the Estates-General in 1789.2 The Maupeou “revolution” and the “pre-Revolution” profoundly aff ected...

... unis aux Tarquins et avoient conspiré contre la Liberté Romaine, des Licteurs rapportent leurs corps pour qu’on leur donne la sepulture), Salon of 1789, oil on canvas, 3232 x 422 cm, Musée du Louvre, Paris, RMN 165087. Photo credit: Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource, NY. embodies confl...

... as governess to the eminent young Swiss matron Mme de Vermenoux in Paris. That city proved kindly to her: it set in her path the young Genevan Jacques Necker, already a prosperous member of Paris’ Swiss banking community. Suzanne Cur- chod was more than ready to be spirited out of nonentity and penury...

..., and was very curious about the English Parliament.12 La Rochefoucault was also charged with bringing Walpole copies of a correspondence between Madame de Choiseul, Vol- taire, and Deffand. Later, when La Rochefoucault had returned to Paris, Catherine Macaulay’s French Connections 6 1...

... to describe the pro- ductive effects of demographic, political, and financial decentralization; he argued that one should cut off Paris’ useless resources and transplant them onto provincial structures.9 Also, in her Considérations sur la révolution fran- çaise (1817), Anne Louise Germaine Necker de...

.... The complete letters in Latin were available in the 1616 edition published in Paris and in Richard Rawlinson’s excellent edition published in London in 1718, one year after Pope’s poem; but, as the poet and translator John Hughes wrote in his pref- ace to The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (London, 1713...

...Pamela Cheek Kushner Nina . Erotic Exchanges: The World of Elite Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century Paris . ( Ithaca : Cornell Univ. , 2013 ). Pp. xi + 295 . $35 Copyright 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Review Essay Demi...

... was the publication of the travels of the former janissary Yirmi Sekiz Çelebi Mehmed Efendi, who was sent to Paris as an envoy of Sultan Ahmed III on 7 October 1720. Çelebi was to restore French-Ottoman relations after a period of dissonance during the reign of Louis XIV...

... 242 Eighteenth-Century Life Figure 2. “Insulaires et monuments de l’ìle de Pàque,” engraving by Godefroy after Duché de Vancy, in Atlas du Voyage de Lapérouse (Paris, 1797). Courtesy Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. image’s...

... (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2003). Pp. 334. €62. ISBN 2-7453-0672-3 Dubois, Pierre de la Ruffinière, comp. Normes et transgression au XVIII e siècle (Paris: Univ. Paris-Sorbonne, 2002). Pp. 247. €26 IBSN 2-840-50-238-0 Du Prey, Pierre. Hawksmoor’s London Churches: Architecture and Theology...